Recent pieces of legislation at the international level have a very strong compliance model. When we talk about our act having a weak compliance model, this is what we are talking about. They have specific times for responding to requests and specific times for extensions. If you want to go beyond the extension provided in the legislation, which is usually a short timeline, you have to get approval or have a review to get a further extension. Similarly with consultations, there are very specific timelines, including for investigations and decisions to be made on investigations. So that's the difference.
I was in Mexico last week; people do not like me using the Mexican example, but their average turnaround time is 8.5 days.
You know, you have to put it in the context of the federal government. In Canada, we're a modern democracy. We have complex files. I understand that it does take longer, because we do have a complex system. But the fact that there's a very weak compliance model actually generates excesses in terms of extensions of delays.